50M years ago our direct ancestors were basically little squirrels.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I have little hope for our mind children. We will make them ruthlessly efficient devourers, at least one of them. Evolution had so much slack that it gave rise to a few of us dreamers. Intelligence and fitness are just pointless.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Yes, but it needs a mind with a similarly shaped soul to host it.
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Replying to @Plinz
This is a major theme in the book I am about to finish writing. Do you believe that all humans have similarly shaped souls or that there's variability among our souls?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
The soul can be thought of as the differential between you and a perfectly rational agent. There are obviously very differently shaped souls, sufficiently characteristic that we also map the souls of others to recognize our own tribe, and those we love.
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Replying to @Plinz
The most common forms of tribalism, however, do seem far more algorithmic than the development of the soul.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I now think that we are NOT a tribal species. We are a state building species, while tribes are reputation and group based singletons. Homo Neanderthaliensis was tribal, and we obliterated them. The evolution of the soul was part of this.
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Replying to @Plinz
The evolution of the soul and obliteration of Homo neanderthalensis was largely due to storytelling capacity and meaning making.
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Yes, the latter is the identification with extrapersonal purposes, the former a tool to achieve convergence.
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Replying to @Plinz
Extrapersonal is difficult to define when the only thing that separates us from the rest of the cosmos is a skin and the perception of individual consciousness.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
It turns out that our minds and our organisms don't exist on the same plane. We are not social primates, we just happen to run on the brain of one of them. We are only partially and sketchily identified with the organism itself and identify with/regulate many things outside of it
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